The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 10
The serving lions also came near and the prince would have stayed his hand, but the king-lion signed to him to feed them too.
Who acts: serving lions, prince, king lion · What happens: come, stay, sign, feed · To what, where: hand, prince, hands
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serving lions, prince, king lion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lions | det |
| 2 | serving | serving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lions | compound |
| 3 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | near | near | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stayed | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stayed | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 stayed | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 stayed | aux |
| 12 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 came | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stayed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 signed | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 signed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 lion | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lion | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 king | punct |
| 20 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 signed | nsubj |
| 21 | signed | sign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 came | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 signed | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 feed | mark |
| 25 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 signed | advcl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 feed | obj |
| 27 | too | too | ADV | _ | 25 feed | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the serving lions | near property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stay | would · perfect | the prince | prince's hand | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme hand=Location | ||||
| 3 | sign | participle | the king lion | prince | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | feed | to-infinitive | the king lion not said here | hands = hand | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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